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You can't use Social Security funds to fund a Basic Income. It operates similarly to a pension fund so it would be equivalent to confiscate peoples lifetime savings. Good luck explaining that to someone who is just about to retire.

Your suggestion has the same problems as most basic income proposals.

1) The numbers don't work out. Even a very steep CO2 tax will produce too little revenue for any form of meaningful BI.

2) The money collected on the CO2 tax could also be used for a general tax cut. So you still have the political problem of explaining to working middle class why their money is being handed out to lazy bums.

That's a description of an evacuated tube.

It's worth noting that Facebook's European datacenter is in Sweden so a large part of Facebook traffic passes Swedish borders.

But it's not solitary confinement in that way. You are allowed to see your lawyer, you interact with staff and you are allowed to go outside every now and then.

Sweden sends aid to Cambodia every year, they did not receive any extra for arresting Anakata.

What you call "solitary confinement" is standard procedure before a trial. This is not considered torture by either the UN or Amnesty International. As soon as the trial is over he'll be transfered to a regular prison and restrictions will be relaxed. He may then study mathematics if he feel like it.

ActiveRecord doesn't even support constraints in the first place.

> you cannot because you have to pay local government for all licenses and whatever taximeter they provide you, not the one you design for your own company and your customers' safety.

The reason you can't provide a service with 2x lower prices is that you would make a huge loss doing that, and it has nothing to do with regulations.

You are allowed to design your own taximeters btw.

And the regulation is "fair" in the sense that it applies equally to all companies (note that Uber is trying to get exepmtion from a rule that their competitors comply with).

The mistake was not researching local laws before entering a new market. It has nothing to do with anti-govt sentiment.

Most desktop applications that where written for the desktop back in the 90's and early 00's where boring internal business stuff, not well known shrink-wrapped stuff such as MS Office.

Today, almost all that development has moved to the web.

Which is exactly what happened to Bitcoin last year.

Bitcoin has experienced more inflation than any other developed country's fiat currency in recent times, with prices rising 700% in just a few months.

There is a lot of ignorance in that thread though. This is one of those subjects where you should be very careful about who you listen to, given all the disinformation floating around on the internet.

This is true for Vertica as well.

There is a case to be made that the trade deficits that the world runs against Germany is unsustainable.

What makes you think the Swedish economy is unsustainable?

I was merely pointing out that hydrocarbons don't have to be liquid to be a viable vehicle fuel. Where I live, all the vehicle gas comes from sewage and municipal waste.

What do you have against natural gas?

Compressed natural gas/biogas is available today and has been for years, at prices far below that of electric cars, with none of the range and refueling issues that electric cars have.

This is not possible in Haskell either. You never hear people claiming Haskell doesn't support closures.

You made a typo, it should be "y > 2" in your filter expression.

MW is the wrong unit to use for that comparision. TWh/year is more appropriate.

Do you actually believe their numbers? If they where true, it would mean that the US has been in a depression for well over 10 years. That would be the longest depression in the history of the US, but somehow nobody noticed because the BLS managed to cover it up. It would also mean that there was never any housing boom, house prices where stable relative to other prices.

Do you actually believe this?

No, CPI includes food, housing and fuel. There is a "core" measure that excludes those, since they add little information but a lot of noise when you want to track the underlying trend.

Chile has a GDP per capita 50% higher than that of Brazil.

Slide-to-unlock was pioneered by Neonode long before Apple even considered going into the phone business.

> Sweden and the swedes is okay, but a bit envious of Denmark.

Really? In what way? I have never ever heard anyone in Sweden talk about Denmark that way.

What's "painfully awry" about thinking jews are no different from other people apart from the circumcision thing?

I second this.

The lack of tail call optimization, persistent data structures, pattern matching and the cumbersome lambda syntax makes functional programming style very painful in Javascript.

The bassdrum is just an impulse exciting a lowpass filter at very high resonance. The clicking noise is generated by a specialized envelope that raises the pitch of the filter for the first few ms. The whole thing is then slightly overdriven to color the sound.

Filtering a sine wave makes little sense, as you'll only end up altering the volume (unless you take the phase respone of the filter into account but this should be barely audible).